Acknowledgments

In truth, life is really the author of this book. She is the one who manifested the flow of events that were so powerful and fascinating they demanded narration. But life needed me to put pen to paper if her greatness was to be memorialized. To that end, she sent exactly the right people at exactly the right time to bring The Surrender Experiment into fruition.

It is with humility and heartfelt thanks that I tell you of the phenomenal job that my product manager, Karen Entner, did on this book. Her tireless and selfless service has instilled this work with a sense of commitment and perfection rarely found in this world.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my editor, Gary Jansen, from Crown Publishing, for all the hard work and great suggestions he contributed. As would be expected, life provided the absolutely perfect editor to assist me in giving this testimony to her greatness.

This book had many early readers, all of whom deserve thanks. I would like to single out James O’Dea, Ursula Harlos, and Stephanie Davis, who contributed detailed suggestions on draft after draft during the early stages of writing.

I now get to acknowledge you, the reader, for having the interest and taking the time to read about this phenomenal experiment. May we all learn to appreciate our lives in this amazing universe—a little bit more each day.